Hmm, not so likely to be swap files then, unless you're indexing the British Lbrary in the background.<br><br>Chris<br><br>On Tuesday, December 13, 2011, dr. m.c. schraefel <<a href="mailto:mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk">mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> 4g<br>><br>> Sent from my iSomething<br>><br>> On 13 Dec 2011, at 22:47, Chris Andrews <<a href="mailto:w@lfie.org">w@lfie.org</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> How much RAM have you got? I'm wondering about swapfiles…<br>
> Chris<br>> -- <br>> Chris Andrews<br>> Sent with Sparrow<br>><br>> On Tuesday, 13 December 2011 at 22:42, dr. m.c. schraefel wrote:<br>><br>> Julian and mischa, thanks for this insight - julian i remember you talking about the fact that time machine does these dumps, but this is after in fact i got home from a big road trip and multiple time machines had been done - syncing hourly. <br>
> Thanks for the util tip for time machine. i'm not sure however what the list from listbackups is telling me and what i might do about it. THere are about a dozen entries<br>> hockeypuck:~ mc$ tmutil listbackups<br>
> /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/HockeyPuck/2011-09-14-095724<br>> [snip a bunch of entries to last one:] <br>> /Volumes/Time Machine Backups/Backups.backupdb/HockeyPuck/2011-12-13-211717<br>> (yes hockey in canadians is genetic: let me just get that out of the way here)<br>
> this tells me the paths for the computer's snapshots i think, but does that mean they're still on the local disk? it seems like this is just a log?<br>> sorry to be so naive on this one.<br>> (nice page here by the way <a href="http://real-world-systems.com/docs/tmutil.1.html">http://real-world-systems.com/docs/tmutil.1.html</a>)<br>
> plainly you could give us tutorials on TM, Jules.<br>> thanks as well all for the utility help - i've been using disksweeper by omni - cool to hear of other tools.<br>> mc<br>> On 13 Dec 2011, at 20:50, Jules Field wrote:<br>
><br>> That's the reason I would bet on. TM does indeed do local snapshots every hour if it can't reach its proper backup destination, so that if you delete or corrupt a file by mistake you can roll back, despite not having a backup destination connected. If you do a proper TM backup to an external device, it should hose the local snapshots as they are no longer relevant.<br>
><br>> Do a<br>> tmutil listbackups<br>> and it will show you what its got, which may include recent local snapshots. It does often take a few seconds.<br>> See the manpage for "tmutil" for how to manage Time Machine in detail and control everything from the command line. It's quite comprehensive.<br>
><br>> Jules.<br>><br>> On 13/12/2011 20:06, Mischa Tuffield wrote:<br>><br>> Could be offline time machine backups. If time machine hasn't had a chance to backup to where it normally does, it creates local backups, as far as I am aware.<br>
> Mischa<br>><br>> -Mischa's phone<br>> On Dec 13, 2011, at 8:03 PM, "dr. m.c. schraefel" <<a href="mailto:mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk">mc@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br>><br>> what keeps eating space on my drive?<br>
> i had cleaned out many many gigs on my drive. last night, i got a notice "less than a gig left" and thot "what??"<br>> restarted, recovered a few gigs (??) but today, after adding nothing, see that it's already 6 gigs less than last night. <br>
> this seems peculiar. <br>> any thoughts?<br>> with thanks<br>> mc<br>> <br>><br>> <julessig.png><br>> -- <br>> <a href="mailto:sysjkf@ecs.soton.ac.uk">sysjkf@ecs.soton.ac.uk</a><br>><br>
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